Improvement in combined table and clothes-horse



v 11. M. SINGER. Combined Table and Clothes Horse.

N o.199,585. Patented Jan. 22,1878.

' WITNESSES U V 9M z almmt f a m' ATTORNEYS,

INVENTOR NPETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE.

DAVID M. SINGER, OF JOHNSTOWN,-PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED TABLE AND CLOTHES-HORSE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 99,585, dated January 22, 1878; application filed I April 14, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAvn) M. SINGER, of J ohnstown ,in the county of Gambria and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Combination Table and Clothes-Horse; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of my combination table and clothes-horse, shown in perspective. Fig. 2 is a detail View, showing the lower end of a standard inserted in a mortise.

The nature of my invention consists in a table provided with a sliding frame or drawer, having folding legs at its outer end, and a folding clothes-rack erected above it, the legs and rack to be folded within said frame, and the whole pushed into the table when not needed for use, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, which fully illustrate my invention, A represents an ordinary table, provided with a sliding frame, B, to be pushed out and in like an ordinary drawer. At the outer end of the frame B are hinged or pivoted two legs, G 0, connected by one or more rounds or cross-bars, G. In the lower end of each leg is a notch, a, as shown.

D represents a diamond-shaped bar, provided with a short lever, D, and having j ournal-bearings in the sides of the frame B, at such a point that by throwing the legs 0 up horizontally in the frame, and turning the bar D by means of the lever D, one edge or corner of said bar will enter the notches a in the lower ends of the legs, and hold them in the raised orelevated position. .By simply raising the lever D the legs are released, and drop down of their own weight to support the outer end of the frame B.

Near the inner end of said frame are pivoted two upright standards, G G, connected by suitable cross-bars orrounds b I) and to the upper ends of said standards are hinged,

two horizontal bars, G G having at their opposite ends two standards, G G, hinged to them, said horizontal bars G and standards G being respectively connected together by means of suitable rounds or cross-bars b and 12 The lower ends of the standards G are shouldered or tenoned, and inserted in suitable mortises or places formed for their reception within the frame B at the outer end, as shown at x in Fig. 2, the whole thus forming an elevated skeleton frame, to be used as a clothes-rack. I

On one or both sides of this structure are connecting-arms, for connecting the standards G and G whereby the structure is firmly braced and additionalbars are provided for hanging clothes. Each of these connectingarms is formed in two parts, J and J, hinged together, and one part is hinged to one of the standards, while the other part, when the arm is extended, is fastened to the other standard by a hook, d, or other equivalent device.

When this clothes-rack is not needed for use, the arms J J are unhooked and folded together, and above or below the cross-bars connecting the standards. The standards G are then lifted out of their mortises and folded under the bars G and these together are folded against the standards G, when the whole is folded down within the frame B, and rests on the bar D. The legs 0 are then folded and held in place, as above described, and the frame B pushed. into the table out of the way, when the table can be used for any ordinary purpose.

The frame B may be arranged to be pulled out at either end or side of the table, as may be required.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A table having a sliding frame or drawer, provided with folding legs and an elevated folding structure or clothes-rack, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The combination, with the sliding frame B, of the folding legs 0, having notches a in the lower ends, and the diamond shaped rocking bar D, with lever D, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

DAVID MCDONALD SINGER.

Witnesses:

B. H. NIXON, J. E. WOLF. 

